Books: From Curley fo Curlylocks

BENJY (143 pp.)—Edwin O'Connor—Atlantic, Little Brown ($4).

Little Benjamin Thurlow Ballou is as sweet as a cluster of lollipops. Though he is only three years old, Benjy is the best little tot in Smiles, Pa., and he always does just what his Mummy tells him. In the morning he puts on his little pink shoes and his little pink sugarplum bathrobe all by himself, and at night he puts his cute little toys neatly away in his playbox. All this makes Benjy feel "toasty-warm all over." and he can't help snuggling up to his mother and saying, "I'm gwad you my Mummy,...

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